Private equity group eyes FiltronicNews & Analysis 5/30/2008 Post a commentFiltronic plc , the British electronics group that has recently sold off its compound semiconductor division, that included Europe's largest GaAs foundry in Newton Aycliffe (England), and oveerr the past two years most of its activities in wireless communications, incuding PAs in mobile handsets, looks set to be acquired by U.S. private equity group Carlyle.

Cell Phones: Feature overload is 'out'Blog 5/30/2008 2 commentsIn a race to provide an ever-longer list of features crammed into a disappearing footprint, it might be time to breathe for a second and find out just what your cell phone customer really wants.

SEC probes insider trading of ATI, FreescaleNews & Analysis 5/30/2008 Post a commentThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that it has charged a former partner at Ernst & Young LLP and two others in an insider trading scheme that resulted in nearly $600,000 in illicit profits.

Multimedia on the factory floorIndustrial Control DesignLine Blog 5/30/2008 Post a commentconsiderable graphical display capabilities. Future system will offer much more: They will be required to understand human language and gestures.

ST moves SPEAr SoCs to 65nmProduct News 5/29/2008 Post a commentBy transferring the SPEAr family to 65-nm process technology, ST's SoC can integrate an advanced ARM926EJ-S processor core with two 16k memory caches, running at 333MHz, for data and instructions and up to 300,000 gates (ASIC-equivalent) of embedded configurable logic.

CATV amplifier facilitates migration towards deep fiberDesign How-To 5/29/2008 Post a commentANADIGICS launched the ACA2420 power doubler line amplifier, a high output power device designed to ensure optimal video and data delivery in deep fiber HFC architectures and other cable TV deployments that minimize the use of cascaded system amplifiers.

Watermarks need privacy controls, group saysNews & Analysis 5/29/2008 Post a commentDigital watermarks can compromise consumer privacy if not designed and deployed correctly, according to a new white paper from The Center for Democracy & Technology that lays out best practices for creating and using watermarks.